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Talk at the ECB on Energy and Credit

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This talk at the European Central Bank covers the failure of economic theorists of all persuasions, not only Neoclassical, to properly incorporate energy into their models of production, and the failure of Neoclassical economists to properly incorporate money and credit. In both cases, I show that there is an easy way to overcome this deficiency: ...

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This talk at the European Central Bank covers the failure of economic theorists of all persuasions, not only Neoclassical, to properly incorporate energy into their models of production, and the failure of Neoclassical economists to properly incorporate money and credit. In both cases, I show that there is an easy way to overcome this deficiency: to treat Energy as an input into Labour and Capital, without which neither can function; and to model capitalism as a monetary system in which bank lending creates both new money and demand.



There’s an extensive discussion with the audience (of about 30 EBC staff).



Steve Keen
Steve Keen (born 28 March 1953) is an Australian-born, British-based economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticising neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. The major influences on Keen's thinking about economics include John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Hyman Minsky, Piero Sraffa, Augusto Graziani, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Thorstein Veblen, and François Quesnay.

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